Do you know what I stopped doing a long time ago?
Putting all my money on one horse. Or more clearly put: earn money from just one place.
At this moment I am making ten colourful boxes as a branding/marketing statement for my wellness coaching.
The first one is almost finished, I will show you later. On the front I'll write a text such as "get into shape for this summer" or "Change your life, change your breakfast" or something like that.
On the side I'll make a sleeve with little cards where people can fill out their contact information and put into the box. Cute, I know!
I want to have ten of such boxes, spread in this region. And another ten in Malmö, and another ten in Gothenburg.
Why? Because this method has been proven to attract curious potential customers, and it is in fact a passive income.
So what are you going to do this evening?
Friday, May 6, 2011
Thursday, May 5, 2011
How to enjoy mama's good food without gaining weight!
Life is about choices.
If you want to have the cake and eat it, that is possible, but you WILL suffer the consequences.
I know, I know, life has so much yummy things to offer. Especially now when I'm temporarily living with my parents again, and get to enjoy my mom's lovely greasy, fattening, amazing cooking, I notice that breakfast, lunch AND dinner will take their toll. Quickly.
So starting from day one -two days ago- I deliberately CHOOSE to only drink the Herbalife shake as breakfast and lunch.
My breakfast looks like this:
2 cups of coffee while I enjoy the view of the harbor on the balcony. When I'm done talking to the pigeons and seagulls, I go inside, and I make my morning shake.
I take two generous table spoons of the shake, vanilla flavoured is my favorite, and mix it with milk. I go back to the balcony and I sip it slowly while I plan my day.
During the day I drink green tea or Chai, then around two pm I take the shake again.
That way I get to scoop up an extra piece of meat and enjoy that real gravy, without feeling guilty for one second. After all, I know that tomorrow, I will replace two meals with the shake again.
Life's good.
So remember: Make choices!! Don't fool yourself by just drinking the shake every now and then and think that you will lose weight.
to lose weight takes real DETERMINATION! And STUBBORNESS! Succes doesn't come easy you know.
My dad who is my newest customer, thinks that he can continue his fattening eating habits and lose weight if he just drinks a glass of the Herbalife shake a day.
Well I helped him out of that dream!
And now I can break that illusion for you too: please don't waste your own time with continue eating normally with just a little of the Herbalife shake every now and then.
I'd rather have you save that money and just continue your unhealthy habits. It won't change anything, besides your waist size in time.
If you want to have the cake and eat it, that is possible, but you WILL suffer the consequences.
I know, I know, life has so much yummy things to offer. Especially now when I'm temporarily living with my parents again, and get to enjoy my mom's lovely greasy, fattening, amazing cooking, I notice that breakfast, lunch AND dinner will take their toll. Quickly.
So starting from day one -two days ago- I deliberately CHOOSE to only drink the Herbalife shake as breakfast and lunch.
My breakfast looks like this:
2 cups of coffee while I enjoy the view of the harbor on the balcony. When I'm done talking to the pigeons and seagulls, I go inside, and I make my morning shake.
I take two generous table spoons of the shake, vanilla flavoured is my favorite, and mix it with milk. I go back to the balcony and I sip it slowly while I plan my day.
During the day I drink green tea or Chai, then around two pm I take the shake again.
That way I get to scoop up an extra piece of meat and enjoy that real gravy, without feeling guilty for one second. After all, I know that tomorrow, I will replace two meals with the shake again.
Life's good.
So remember: Make choices!! Don't fool yourself by just drinking the shake every now and then and think that you will lose weight.
to lose weight takes real DETERMINATION! And STUBBORNESS! Succes doesn't come easy you know.
My dad who is my newest customer, thinks that he can continue his fattening eating habits and lose weight if he just drinks a glass of the Herbalife shake a day.
Well I helped him out of that dream!
And now I can break that illusion for you too: please don't waste your own time with continue eating normally with just a little of the Herbalife shake every now and then.
I'd rather have you save that money and just continue your unhealthy habits. It won't change anything, besides your waist size in time.
Monday, May 2, 2011
Migration!
Dear friends, tonight I fly back home to Sweden.
I've experienced wonderful adventures here in the Netherlands for ten years now.
And now it is time to end this chapter, and start a new one. In Ystad, Sweden!
See you at the other side of the north sea!
I've experienced wonderful adventures here in the Netherlands for ten years now.
And now it is time to end this chapter, and start a new one. In Ystad, Sweden!
See you at the other side of the north sea!
Saturday, April 30, 2011
Think out of the box!
The great thing about our society today is that there's an endless amount of information available for us. ABout just anything.
That means, that whatever your goals are in life, there are plenty of sources for information! Whatever you want to do, you just pick from this big buffet and make your own choices based on the facts you find.
But the information load is basically more one of quantity than quality. There is a wide range of information, but no longer sources that dig deeply to get to the core of something.
That's why I don't want this to become a blog of low-fat recipes and peptalks for you to excercize. No, I care more about the first, real steps: your thoughts. Your wishes. And what your self-talk is saying to help you or sabotage you.
Check this video, an author talks about his book "What If", that helps understand why we do the things we do, why we break promises to ourselves...In short, a good video for most of us:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQ7lfU7OTyA
I don't know about you, but I want this book!!
My headline says "think out of the box!" because my point is that to reach your goals, you have to change what you are doing now, to get different results from what you're getting now.
That means changing something in your life in a way the 'old' you would never have dared or wanted to.
My latest interesting read was Ask and it is given, by Jerry and Esther Hicks. Normally I wouldn't read books that claim to be channeled messages from dead people, but I thought, what the heck: let's think out of the box. My thought patterns were damaging my self-image, and I had had it with all my destructive self-talk!
Guess what: since I've read it, weird things are starting to happen. I'm feeling more compassionate towards myself than ever. I felt this urge to start this blog about my holistic view on health. And I didn't feel the normal fears about this new adventure.
The book talks about how your emotions vibrate signals into the universe. And now I've monitored all my fears, I've been able to silence them.
It feels great to live life with less and less fears. When I started reading that book, I had no idea that the results would be this mind-blowing. I just wanted to think out of the box.
So what new path are you going to try out today?
That means, that whatever your goals are in life, there are plenty of sources for information! Whatever you want to do, you just pick from this big buffet and make your own choices based on the facts you find.
But the information load is basically more one of quantity than quality. There is a wide range of information, but no longer sources that dig deeply to get to the core of something.
That's why I don't want this to become a blog of low-fat recipes and peptalks for you to excercize. No, I care more about the first, real steps: your thoughts. Your wishes. And what your self-talk is saying to help you or sabotage you.
Check this video, an author talks about his book "What If", that helps understand why we do the things we do, why we break promises to ourselves...In short, a good video for most of us:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQ7lfU7OTyA
I don't know about you, but I want this book!!
My headline says "think out of the box!" because my point is that to reach your goals, you have to change what you are doing now, to get different results from what you're getting now.
That means changing something in your life in a way the 'old' you would never have dared or wanted to.
My latest interesting read was Ask and it is given, by Jerry and Esther Hicks. Normally I wouldn't read books that claim to be channeled messages from dead people, but I thought, what the heck: let's think out of the box. My thought patterns were damaging my self-image, and I had had it with all my destructive self-talk!
Guess what: since I've read it, weird things are starting to happen. I'm feeling more compassionate towards myself than ever. I felt this urge to start this blog about my holistic view on health. And I didn't feel the normal fears about this new adventure.
The book talks about how your emotions vibrate signals into the universe. And now I've monitored all my fears, I've been able to silence them.
It feels great to live life with less and less fears. When I started reading that book, I had no idea that the results would be this mind-blowing. I just wanted to think out of the box.
So what new path are you going to try out today?
Keep your goal in sight!
Living counsciously adds new dimensions to your life. It is amazing. But sometimes shallow, unhealthy choices are soooo yummy and easy, and sweet that you just can't help but to lose yourself for a moment.
The great danger with allowing yourself to eat whatever you want for a weekend, is that you never get back on track again with your wishes to become a more healthy person. A weekend becomes a week, becomes a month...Before you know it you gained the weight you lost, and more kilos on top of that.
Never, never, lose track of your goal. Keep a note of your health goal in your wallet, put a post-it on your bathroom mirror, in a drawer in your desk, even as a screensaver on your laptop! Trust me, constantly seeing your goal triggers the right connections in your brain! Which trigger you to take action towards your goal! That's why law of attraction/self fulfilling prophecies always work!
We're human. We sin. We indulge. We are not perfect, thank goodness. But always get back on that track if you fall off. It is never too late to change. You are not hopeless. It is not your destiny to be fat. It is your destiny to seek your own bliss. And a part of that bliss is to reach your physical goals!
Friday, April 29, 2011
Be compassionate to yourself!
One of the women I admire the most in the entire world is her: www.blondinbella.se
She started blogging when she was 14, started her first company when she was 16, now she has a fashion collection, published book, a brand new magazine, a web shop and a private investors company. And she is 20 years old.
Who said beauty and brains can't come together?
Just now she blogged "I will take a break from everything this weekend. Shut my cell phone off, don't check my e-mail, nothing".
And I figured that's something we all should do from time to time. To dare be unreachable for a while.
Do you remember in the good old days, when yo went on vacation, and nobody could reach you for three weeks?
Wasn't that wonderful in many ways? I love my laptop and smartphone but...I'm never offline. I'm never on a real break.
And nowadays if you don't respond to an e-mail within the hour, you get text messages and phone calls from that person, that is a bit insulted you didn't take time for them at that red hot minute.
Being online constantly leads to stress. And I think we are not aware of half of it. It is such a part of our daily lives, that we have forgotten what it was like to be completely disconnected and free from the rest of the world.
But I vaguely remember hot summer days as a child. I ran barefoot through the woods of the north of Sweden, without a care in the world.
When the sun got lower, and I got hungry, I ran home to eat. Nobody worried if I was a bit late. Parenting in the north of Sweden 15 years ago was a non-stop holiday compared to what I see here in the Netherlands now. Yikes.
A part of becoming more healthy is to learn to let go of the world. Shut the phone off. Leave the world be for a while.
Let go of the constant flow of news.
And just breathe in. And breathe out.
She started blogging when she was 14, started her first company when she was 16, now she has a fashion collection, published book, a brand new magazine, a web shop and a private investors company. And she is 20 years old.
Who said beauty and brains can't come together?
Just now she blogged "I will take a break from everything this weekend. Shut my cell phone off, don't check my e-mail, nothing".
And I figured that's something we all should do from time to time. To dare be unreachable for a while.
Do you remember in the good old days, when yo went on vacation, and nobody could reach you for three weeks?
Wasn't that wonderful in many ways? I love my laptop and smartphone but...I'm never offline. I'm never on a real break.
And nowadays if you don't respond to an e-mail within the hour, you get text messages and phone calls from that person, that is a bit insulted you didn't take time for them at that red hot minute.
Being online constantly leads to stress. And I think we are not aware of half of it. It is such a part of our daily lives, that we have forgotten what it was like to be completely disconnected and free from the rest of the world.
But I vaguely remember hot summer days as a child. I ran barefoot through the woods of the north of Sweden, without a care in the world.
When the sun got lower, and I got hungry, I ran home to eat. Nobody worried if I was a bit late. Parenting in the north of Sweden 15 years ago was a non-stop holiday compared to what I see here in the Netherlands now. Yikes.
A part of becoming more healthy is to learn to let go of the world. Shut the phone off. Leave the world be for a while.
Let go of the constant flow of news.
And just breathe in. And breathe out.
Weddings when you want to lose weight
What a blissful day for William and Kate! I wish them all the best for today and forever.
For their guests who have decided to lose weight, however, things will be tricky.
For after all, when the crown prince of Britain serves you cake, you don't want to turn it down.
When royalty gives you basically anything to eat, you don't want to say no.
So here's what I do when the pressure is high and I 'must' eat what is served:
* I don't finish the entire portion if it is sweet
* I finish the soup and the veggies, I leave the rest, unless it is chicken filet or fish
* If there's fresh water on the table, I help myself as much as possible
* If alcohol is served, I indulge in a couple of glasses of red wine, the full feeling in my belly helps me say no to fried snacks and other unhealthy hour d' heuvres.
The next day I only drink grean tea and water, lots of it.
The next day I replace breakfast and lunch with my Formula 1 Shake.
I've noticed that the usual feelings of remorse and guilt during a party fade away if I promise myself to stick to these tricks during the day, and to adjust my eating pattern the next day. And since I feel so damn good and proud, that releases happy-hormones to my brain, which according to some studies, help your body burn fat as well!
For their guests who have decided to lose weight, however, things will be tricky.
For after all, when the crown prince of Britain serves you cake, you don't want to turn it down.
When royalty gives you basically anything to eat, you don't want to say no.
So here's what I do when the pressure is high and I 'must' eat what is served:
* I don't finish the entire portion if it is sweet
* I finish the soup and the veggies, I leave the rest, unless it is chicken filet or fish
* If there's fresh water on the table, I help myself as much as possible
* If alcohol is served, I indulge in a couple of glasses of red wine, the full feeling in my belly helps me say no to fried snacks and other unhealthy hour d' heuvres.
The next day I only drink grean tea and water, lots of it.
The next day I replace breakfast and lunch with my Formula 1 Shake.
I've noticed that the usual feelings of remorse and guilt during a party fade away if I promise myself to stick to these tricks during the day, and to adjust my eating pattern the next day. And since I feel so damn good and proud, that releases happy-hormones to my brain, which according to some studies, help your body burn fat as well!
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